llenura
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʝeˈnuɾa/ [ɟ͡ʝeˈnu.ɾa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ʎeˈnuɾa/ [ʎeˈnu.ɾa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ʃeˈnuɾa/ [ʃeˈnu.ɾa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ʒeˈnuɾa/ [ʒeˈnu.ɾa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Costa Rica): (file) - Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: lle‧nu‧ra
Noun
llenura f (plural llenuras)
- fullness
- 2016 December 7, “Las frutas de la temporada son ricas en vitaminas y aportan pocas calorías”, in La Prensa[1]:
- Como son altos en fibra, dan sensación de llenura y pueden fácilmente reemplazar un tiempo de comida.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (colloquial, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Paraguay) a feeling of stomach heaviness; indigestion
Further reading
- “llenura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “llenura”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010